Bibliography on
Ancient Greek Law:
Spring 2007 edition
1. Abbreviations
1a. Collected Studies and Kleine Schriften
1b. Journals/Periodicals
2. Sources
2a. General
2b. Orators
2b1. Aeschines
2b2. Andochides
2b3. Antiphon
2b4. Demosthenes / Apollodorus
2b5. Dinarchus
2b6. Hypereides
2b7. Isaeus
2b8. Isocrates
2b9. Lycurgus
2b10. Lysias
2c. Inscriptions
2c1. General
2c2. Crete
2c3. Papyri
2c4. Lexica
2d. Other Literary Sources
2d1. Epic
2d2. Tragedy
2d3. Comedy
2d4. Plato
2d5. Aristotle
3. General
3a. Manuals/General Works
3b. Methodology
4. Fundamental Principles
4a. General
4b. Human rights
4c. Orality - custom
4d. Codification
4d1. General
4d2. Themis, Dike, Nomos
4e. Law
and Legislators
4e1. General
4e2. Draco
4e3. Solon
4f. Justice
and law
4g. Relation of Greek laws to other
legal systems
4h. Dispute settlement
4i. Conflict of laws
4j. Origin of law
4k. Legal language - terminology
4l. Natural law
4m. Litigiousness
5. Polis
5a. General
5b. Constitutions
5c. Magistrates
5d. Nomothesia
5e. Stasis, exile, reconciliation
5f. Ostracism
6. Status
6a. General
6b. Citizenship
6c. Metics
6d. Xenoi
6e. Freedmen
6f. Slaves
6g. Women and law
6h. Associations
7. Family and inheritance
7a. General
7b. Marriage
7c. Dowry
7d. Divorce
7e. Adoption
7f. Wills
7g. Succession ab intestat
8. Property
8a. General
8b. Sales of land
8c. Leases of land
8d. Sureties
8e. Servitudes
9. Law of Obligations
9a. General
9b. Sale
9c. Lease
9d. Loan
10. Commercial Law
10a. General
10b. Maritime Law
10c. Banks
11. Procedure
11a. General
11b. Courts
11c. Procedures (Dikai - Graphai)
11d. Famous Trials
11e. Personnel
11f. Proofs
11f1. General
11f2. Witnesses
11f3. Torture
11f4. Oaths
11g. Arbitration
11h. Enforcement
12. Crime and punishment
12a. General
12b. Homicide
12c. Hybris
12d. Sexual Offences
12e. Theft
12f. Other offences
12g. Penalties
12h. Penal Procedure
13. Religion and Law
14. Inter-poleis relations
14a. General
14b. Proxenia
14c. Treaties
14d. Leagues
20. Recent additions
NOMOI
Bibliography on
Ancient Greek Law:
Spring 2007 edition
Edited by David C. Mirhady